Justify | ljust

[7stud2 (7stud --)]

I'm trying to format my output but however I try it just doesn't wanna
work. I started ruby a few weeks ago so it's hard to explain, let me
just show it.

puts "#{m_counter} #{payment} #{interest} #{principal} #{balance}"

How do I put .ljust(10) to each of them?
I tried this to:

puts m_counter.ljust(10) + payment.ljust(15) + interest.ljust(20)... etc
But first of all, itt adds the values and with the ljust next to it it
gives me an error message of course.

So basically my question is how do I print out more than 1 variable with
methods next to them. (Sorry if I used the wrong definitions.. still
new!)

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[tiredpixel]

Dear Greg,

(I started writing this earlier but see your question has been
answered meanwhile; I'll send it anyway, as the extra information may
be helpful. )

When a number such as m_counter is interpolated within a string, it
gets converted to a string representation if possible (using .to_s).
That is why your puts line works. The methods ljust() and rjust() are
called on strings, so one way to accomplish what you're looking for
would be to do something like

    puts m_counter.to_s.ljust(10) + ...

although I suspect you might be looking for rjust() not ljust(), as
numbers as often right-aligned (although this depends on whether
you're working with decimal places).

A different, and arguably pleasanter, way of accomplishing this would
be to use a string-format approach. For this, you can specify a string
of formats and apply it to an array of values. e.g.

    puts "%10s%10s%10s%10s%10s" %
[m_counter,payment,interest,principal,balance]

That is the equivalent of .rjust(10) for each; for .ljust(10), use
"%-10s" instead of "%10s".

Two excellent links for further study of this approach are:

Class: String (Ruby 2.0.0)

Module: Kernel (Ruby 2.0.0)

Peace,
tiredpixel

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On 14/10/2013 01:00, Greg Hajdu wrote:

I'm trying to format my output but however I try it just doesn't
wanna work. I started ruby a few weeks ago so it's hard to explain,
let me just show it.

puts "#{m_counter} #{payment} #{interest} #{principal} #{balance}"

How do I put .ljust(10) to each of them? I tried this to:

puts m_counter.ljust(10) + payment.ljust(15) +
interest.ljust(20)... etc But first of all, itt adds the values and
with the ljust next to it it gives me an error message of course.

So basically my question is how do I print out more than 1 variable
with methods next to them. (Sorry if I used the wrong definitions..
still new!)

[7stud2 (7stud --)]

Wow, thank you for the quick answer. First one works like a charm!

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[7stud2 (7stud --)]

Thank you, I'm going to check the link out.
Actually I just realized that I was thinking that the + sign gonna add
them and didn't realize that using + with strings just simply puts them
next to each other (what I was looking for).

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[Apostolos_Pantsiopou (Apostolos Pantsiopoulos)]

try :

puts "#{m_counter.to_s.ljust(10)}#{payment.to_s.ljust(20)}#{interest.to_s.
ljust(15)}#{principal.to_s.ljust(15)}#{balance.to_s.ljust(20)}"

or

puts m_counter.to_s.ljust(10) + payment.to_s.ljust(20) + ...

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*Software Engineer*

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Greg Hajdu <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

I'm trying to format my output but however I try it just doesn't wanna
work. I started ruby a few weeks ago so it's hard to explain, let me
just show it.

puts "#{m_counter} #{payment} #{interest} #{principal} #{balance}"

How do I put .ljust(10) to each of them?
I tried this to:

puts m_counter.ljust(10) + payment.ljust(15) + interest.ljust(20)... etc
But first of all, itt adds the values and with the ljust next to it it
gives me an error message of course.

So basically my question is how do I print out more than 1 variable with
methods next to them. (Sorry if I used the wrong definitions.. still
new!)

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[7stud2 (7stud --)]

A Hash sounds like a good way of improving the performance of a regular
calculation like that. I'm no expert on the efficiency of the C code
though.

Would this work?

FMT = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = "%-10d" * Integer( k ) + "\n" }

def output( values )
  printf FMT[ values.size ], *values
end

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[7stud2 (7stud --)]

Oh, now we're getting into singleton classes. I applaud your skills,
good sir

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[Robert_K1 (Robert K.)]

Since nobody mentioned printf I do. Assuming that all these are integers:

printf "%-10d%-10d%-10d%-10d%-10d\n", m_counter, payment, interest,
principal, balance

Note that you need the "-" to get left justification. If you want to
have right justification (which is more common with numbers) just omit
the dashs.

Kind regards

robert

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Greg Hajdu <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

Thank you, I'm going to check the link out.
Actually I just realized that I was thinking that the + sign gonna add
them and didn't realize that using + with strings just simply puts them
next to each other (what I was looking for).

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[Robert_K1 (Robert K.)]

A Hash sounds like a good way of improving the performance of a regular
calculation like that. I'm no expert on the efficiency of the C code
though.

Would this work?

I think so. Just watch out for multiple threads.

FMT = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = "%-10d" * Integer( k ) + "\n" }

def output( values )
  printf FMT[ values.size ], *values
end

We could even do

FMT = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = "%-10d" * Integer( k ) + "\n" }

def FMT.format(*values)
  printf(self[values.size], *values)
end

Cheers

robert

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

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[7stud2 (7stud --)]

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1124462:

printf "%-10d%-10d%-10d%-10d%-10d\n", m_counter, payment, interest,
principal, balance

Just an additional demo with a DRY approach:

printf ("%-10d" * 5 + "\n"), *(1..5)

You can change that "5" to however many numbers you're displaying.

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[Tamara_Temple1 (Tamara Temple)]

OMG seriously deep arcane stuff! I love this. It's starting to look like Haskell….

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On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

FMT = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = "%-10d" * Integer( k ) + "\n" }

def FMT.format(*values)
printf(self[values.size], *values)
end

[Robert_K1 (Robert K.)]

You could generalize that approach

def output(values)
  printf ("%-10d" * values.size + "\n"), *values
end

There is a runtime penalty though. Your solution could be saved with a constant

FMT = ("%-10d" * 5 + "\n").freeze

printf FMT, *(1..5)

But the "dynamic" one cannot - unless one starts using an Array or
Hash for storage of format strings...

Kind regards

robert

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1124462:

printf "%-10d%-10d%-10d%-10d%-10d\n", m_counter, payment, interest,
principal, balance

Just an additional demo with a DRY approach:

printf ("%-10d" * 5 + "\n"), *(1..5)

You can change that "5" to however many numbers you're displaying.

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